History & Criticism

"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."—New York Times “Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining e...

Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, earned him a reputation as one of the shar...

Few of us realize that our language in the workplace inhibits creative problem-solving and escalates uncertainty and stress. In both high-pressure situatio...

This Book Delves Into The Author's Longtime Fascination With The Ghost Of Hamlet's Father, And His Daring And Ultimately Gratifying Journey Takes Him Throug...

In this classic book you will discover the intimate journey of personal and spiritual development that is possible through the practice of journal writing...

A Collection Of Essays That Explore The Effects Of Contemporary Patterns Of Thought On American Fiction, Considering Topics Such As The Belief In Hell, The ...

Copenhagen is a reimagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner He...

All's faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-out-loud rom-com from debut author Jen DeLuca.Emily knew ...

In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's club bearing the phrase "posing s...

The renowned animal lover shares the heartwarming stories of the various animals that inhabit the Black Beauty Ranch, animals that have been saved from deat...

Sunrise On The Pier -- Morning Coffee -- Pumpkin Season -- Shaping Heartsongs -- Awakening After A Close Call -- Wishes -- Mosaic Of Gifts -- Embracing Each...

San Francisco Book-restoration Expert Brooklyn Wainwright Is On The Case When A Rare Edition Of Rebecca Leads To Murder In This Latest Installment Of The Ne...

Timed to the publication of the author's new illustrated children's book, A Family of Poems, the national bestseller is now available in a specially price...

Edited & Translated By Sam Hamill & J.p. Seaton. Originally Published: 2004. Translated From More Than One Language.Categories: Religion & Spiri...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Twelfth Night on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. E...

Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back constable of Lochdubh, Scotland, has a new Land Rover to drive and a Highland summer to savor, but as fast as rain rolls in fr...

with Works By Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce And Many Others, This Outstanding Collection Of 35 American And British Short Pieces O...

With over 10 million copies sold worldwide, here is the towering epic about three generations of a remarkable family in the Australian outback that was the ...

In May 2012, Bestselling Author Neil Gaiman Delivered The Commencement Address At Philadelphia's University Of The Arts, In Which He Shared His Thoughts Abo...

The definitive guide for all fans of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and the glittering Regency period Publishers Weekly Meticulously researched yet splend...

Explores The History Of American Film Noir, Focusing On Its Dreamlike, Erotic, Ambivalent, And Cruel Atmosphere, And Setting It In The Social Context Of Mid...

Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists. Anne Fadiman is--by her own ...

Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be de...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

The Signet Classics edition of one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.Full of cruelty and betrayal, King Lear is the timeless and timely story o...

Alexandre Dumas ; Revised Translation, With An Introduction And Notes By David Coward. Originally Published As World's Classics Paperback 1990. Reissued As ...

Written Sometime Between 1330 And 1332, The Essays In Idleness Hardly Mirror The Turbulent Times In Which They Were Born. Despite The Struggle Between The E...

Most people think Jane Austen wrote only six novels. Fortunately for us, she wrote several others, though very short ones, while still a young girl. Austen ...

In A Collection Of Irreverent Humor, The Author Presents His Observations And Opinions On The Foibles And Follies Of Modern Life, Taking On Such Topics As T...

Canada’s best-known storyteller, Dan Yashinsky, lives his life as teller and listener, and shows how storytelling can and does create vital connections be...

Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led...

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racia...

In The Art Of Time In Memoir, Critic, Editor, And Memoirist Sven Birkerts Examines The Human Impulse To Write About The Self. Memoir Is, For Better And Ofte...

The inside story of how A League of Their Own--one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time--developed from an unheralded piece of American history...

In Ruth Reichl’s latest book — one that will delight her fans and convert those as yet uninitiated to her charming tales — the author brings to life her ad...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Includes exclusive bonus material Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has received an anonymous note carrying an u...

To win her love. . . As an extremely wealthy laird, Gowan Stoughton, Duke of Kinross, can have any of the maidens at the ball he attends. The only problem...

With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. In...

William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway, University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warr...

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives and the texts we read? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in l...

From Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The L...

"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."--New York Tim...

"An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today." ―Daily Express (UK) In Foundation...

Harpercollins Is Proud To Present Its New Range Of Best-loved, Essential Classics. 'there Is No Greater Sorrow Then To Recall Our Times Of Joy In Wretchedne...

The “Guermantes Way,” in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes’s châte...

What did the Flash know about the Special Theory of Relativity that you do not? Why did Ant-Man have so much difficulty with a half- filled bathtub? Kakali...